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2017 Bill(s)

SB 58
Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
Status: S Education
Description: Impose restrictions on the ability of students to transfer out of unaccredited school districts. Establish a system for accrediting attendance centers within a district rather than the entire district. Also contains a large number of other school issues.
See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • * SB 59
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Rules
    Description: Ban lobbyist gifts or contributions to legislators and statewide elected officials, their families and staffers. Prohibit campaign contributions by lobbyists to candidates for legislative or statewide offices.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 60
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Economic Development
    Description: Revive an expired law that provided a tax credit for property tax increases of residences of lower income and disabled elderly that has expired.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SCS SB 203
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Expand eligibility for the "Ticket to Work" program that allows some persons to buy into Medicaid health care coverage in order to get a job.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 204
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: H Judiciary
    Description: Expand a law requiring a person older than 16 years who is arrested for certain felonies to submit a sample for DNA profiling. Expand the requirement to every felony arrest of a person older than 16 years.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 205
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Small Business & Industry
    Description: Strengthen provisions against gender discrimination in pay.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 206
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Education
    Description: Expand the law against school bullying. Expand the requirement for schools to require polices and statements on bullying and reporting bullying.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 207
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Perfection
    Description: Expand absentee ballot voting to include emergency workers engaged in an emergency reponse.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 208
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Local Gov't & Elections
    Description: Increase the penalty for various voter registration crimes. Prohibit suspending imposition of sentence. Require at least 30 days imprisonment before parole or probation eligibility.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 318
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Include in those prohibited from possessing a firearm a person convicted of domestic violence, an illegal foreigner or under various court orders such as harassment or stalking.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 351
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Increase the penalty for distributing any substance with a detectable amount of heroin.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 352
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Allow a lawsuit to be filed for damages by a victim of sexual abuse by a relative at any time. Current law imposses ten-year time limit for a lawsuit. Also remove the statute of limitations for prosecution.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 425
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Economic Development
    Description: Adjust the maximum tax credits that can be awarded for historic building preservation on the basis of the increase in the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 462
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Adopt a mutli-state compact for recognizing psychologist licenses from other states in the compact for telemedicine or shotr-term practice.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • SB 481
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Small Business & Industry
    Description: Expand what is determined job-related illnesses for workers' compensation coverage for firefighters, police and emergency medical technicians. Include lung diseases, hypertension, post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular-renal disease if the person had worked on one of those positions for at least five years.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 482
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal Jurisp.
    Description: Prohibit state or local government from discriminating against a licensed professional counselor.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    SB 522
    Sponsor: Sifton, Scott
    Status: S Transport., Infrastructure & Safety
    Description: Require school buses have lap-shoulder safety belts.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.